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To: robin@intercore.com (Robin Cutshaw)
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Subject: Re: tcp problems with 2.1.6.1 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 19:05:26 -0800
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>Recently while supping the XFree86 tree, I noticed that one of my boxes
>was having timeout problems.  It's a P90/64MB/FreeBSD-2.1.6.1 box.  I
>watched the ethernet and noticed a large number of packets received
>that got no ack from the FreeBSD box.  This caused a large number
>of retransmits.  The other boxes on this net don't seem to have
>this problem so I thought I'd ask the FreeBSD group if anyone has
>seen anything like this.

   You need to mention what type of ethernet card you're using. The bug isn't
likely with the TCP code, but rather a device driver or hardware problem.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project